--- title: "Travelers Horrified as Fellow Plane Passenger Starts Spewing Blood" description: "During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing \"liters of blood\" — a horrifying scene." date: "2024-02-12" modified: "2024-02-12" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/travelers-horrified-as-fellow-plane-passenger-starts-spewing-blood" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "#airlines" - "air travel" - "death" --- # Travelers Horrified as Fellow Plane Passenger Starts Spewing Blood ![During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a horrifying scene.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a tragic and horrifying scene that his fellow passengers are unlikely to forget any time soon. According to [Swiss publication *Blick*](), the passenger already looked ill upon boarding the Airbus A380 and was reportedly experiencing "cold sweats" and was "breathing much too quickly." After the man's wife notified a flight attendant of his worsening condition, the captain checked in on him, calling for the help of a doctor over the PA system. After takeoff, the man was given a chamomile tea, but started spitting blood into an airsickness bag. Then all hell broke loose, with prodigious quantities of blood pouring from his nose and mouth. "It was absolute horror, everybody was screaming," fellow passenger Karin Missfelder [told *Blick*]() in German. Despite attempting CPR for around 30 minutes, the captain later announced that the man had passed away. "It was dead silent on board," Missfelder recalled. The Airbus eventually returned to Bangkok, where the man's body was carried off the plane. Lufthansa told *Blick* that it had no further details as to the cause of the man's death. "Our thoughts are with the relatives of the deceased passenger," a Lufthansa spokesperson [told the *New York Post*]() in a statement. "We also regret the inconvenience caused to the passengers of this flight." According to flight records, the plane left Bangkok at 11:50 pm local time and landed at the same location at 8:28 am the next day. In the case of a death on board a commercial airliner, the International Air Transport Association [recommends]() that airlines move the affected person to a seat with few other passengers nearby, putting them in a body bag if available or covering them with a blanket. The body also has to be restrained with a seat belt. Flight attendant Sheena Marie, whose 2021 TikTok video about the subject went viral in 2021, [told *Business Insider*]() at the time that a death can cause a plane to be taken out of service for both investigation and cleaning, with carpets sometimes needing to be replaced. Fortunately, a death on board a commercial jet is extremely rare. According [to *Conde Nast Traveler*](), there's only around one medical emergency for every 600 flights, and fewer still [result in a death](). **More on air travel:** *[Partiers Attempt to Celebrate New Year's Twice With Flight Between Time Zones, Accidentally Land in Wrong Year]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()